After Donald Trump was found guilty in his first criminal trial last week, a group of eight Republican senators decided to fight back by throwing a tantrum.
So far, that tantrum, The New York Times reports, has done a whole lot of nothing.
In an open letter addressed to no one, the senators threatened to obstruct the White House agenda by refusing to vote for certain Democratic legislation or judicial appointees—something, the Times notes, the signatories to the letter were already doing.
It’s a protest that even some of their fellow Republican senators realize is pretty dumb.
“If you have a handful of people who vote no all the time, then the threat to vote no really doesn’t come with a lot of leverage,” said North Dakota’s Kevin Cramer, not exactly a squishy moderate.
You don’t say!
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